JOHANNES JOSEPH van ROOD
CURRICULUM VITAE
Date of Birth: April 7, 1926
Nationality: Dutch
Place of Birth: The Hague, The Netherlands
Married : A.M.R. Baronesse van Tuyll van Serooskerken
Children: Three
Home address: Laan van Alkemade, Oegstgeest, The Netherlands
Office address: Department of Immunohaematology and Blood Bank, University Hospital, Rijnsburgerweg 10, 2333 AA Leiden, The Netherlands
Medical training:
University of Leiden (medicine) 1945 –1952
Department of Medicine (Dr. R.F. Loeb), Presbyterian Hosp., 1950 Columbia University, New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Resident and postgraduate training:
- Department of Medicine, University Hospital, Leiden 1952 – 1957
- Training in blood banking, Central Laboratory of the Dutch Red 1957 Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Amsterdam
- Specialist in Internal Medicine 1957 (equivalent to US Board Examination). In charge of blood Bank and Department of Immunohaematology, University Hospital, Leiden
- Engaged in tissue typing since 1958
- Sabbatical year in the Department of Immunology, 1962 – 1963 Public Health Research Institute of the City of New York, N.Y., U.S.A. (Head: Dr F.L. Adler)
- Doctor of Medicine (cum laude) (equivalent to US PhD. or July 7, 1962 Doctor of Medical Science); thesis: “Leucocyte Grouping. A method and Its Application” (Promotor: Prof. Dr. J. Mulder)
Appointments: - Head of the Department of Immunohaematology since 1957
- Lecturer in Internal Medicine 1965
- Founder and President of the Eurotransplant Foundation 1967
- Professor of Internal Medicine 1969
Advisory Committee Membership, Editorial Board, Etc.
Advisor of the Primate Center TNO, Rijkswijk, The Netherlands
Expert of the working party on the exchange of sera for the determination of histocompatibility” of the Council of Europe (till 1978)
Member of the Consiglio Nazionale di Richerche di Torino, Italy
Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (section: Physics, since 1978)
Member of the Advisory Board of Tissue Antigens
Member of the Editorial Board of J. Immunogenetics
Member of the Editorial Bard of Disease Markers
Contributing Editor of Vox Sanguinis (till 1979)
Member of the Advisory Board of Transplantation Proceedings
Member of the Editorial Board of Dialysis & Transplantation
Member of the Editorial Board of Thymus
European Editor of Human Immunology (from 1/9/1982)
Reviewing articles for Biomedicine, Transplantation, etc
Professional Societies:
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association of Clinical Histocompatibility Testing
American Association of Immunologists
British Society for Immunology
British Transplantation Society European Society for Clinical Investigation
Honorary member of the Faculty of Medicine & Surgery 1980 of the University of Torino
Honorary Member of the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands 1981
Honorary Member of the Scandinavian Society of Immunology 1980
Honorary Member of l’Université Claude Bernard de Lyon, France 1982
Heberden Oration for the Heberden Society, London 1983
Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy for 1984 Medicine of Belgium, Brussels
Research activities have centered around the following topics:
1. Genetics of histocompatibility antigens 2. Organ and bone marrow transplantation 3. Genetic factors in disease 4. Blood banking 5. Clinical haematology 6. Clinical immunology